I have encountered a strange problem on Windows (cygwin git 1.6.1.2 and msys git version 1.6.2.2.1669.g7eaf8). Lets execute the following sequence of commands: git init echo a >.gitignore echo test >a git ls-files -i --exclude-standard The last command in the sequence gives an empty output. But "git status" and "git ls-files -o --exclude-standard" show only ".gitignore" file as untracked. So the file "a" is considered as ignored by git, but it is not displayed in output "git ls-files -i --exclude-standard". Does the bug happen on other platforms and versions of git? Regards, Constantine -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html